KB Brookins
Nonfiction
Austin, TX
KB Brookins is the recipient of the Alice Judson Hayes Social Justice Fellowship.
KB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, cultural worker, and visual artist from Texas. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and a Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut poetry collection, Freedom House, won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for the Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s debut memoir, Pretty, was released in May 2024 with Alfred A. Knopf.